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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in electronic educational technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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